When people ask if the United States can afford to place on trial the president, if the system can stand impeachment, my answer is, "Can we stand anything else?

No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public.

One of the sharp parallels is that neither Vietnam nor Iraq was the slightest threat to America's national security.

It's possible to dazzle a crowd if you really work at it. But that is no qualification for leadership. Hitler was a master of crowds.

My father was a clergyman and always said: 'Hate the sin but love the sinner.'

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

When I was in the war, I was lucky that I was in a plane and never saw the carnage close-up.